I tend to lean to the left on most issues.


Though if I lived in America the last thing I'd want is to give the government more power.

the truth is most people would be to left of center but mostly single issues make people vote with the right. i.e. abortion taxes guns "pseudo small governmet". thats basically it values associated with the right wing

I'm center-left. I've voted for both Democrat and Republican politicians. Most people consider me left wing but my wife is very right wing. Which people think is weird that she married a black guy.

Im dead center, which you should have as an option in your poll

In which case, libertarianism is about allowing excesses of wealth to be spent however the one who earned that wealth sees fit, and to live in any non-exploitative lifestyle they desire, making it fundamentally different from either of those two.

I hate both wings of the same bird of prey. Democrat and republican leadership don't give a flying fuck all about you. About any of you. Why anyone votes for a candidate who works for corporate donors instead of grassroots donors; I will never understand. Republican and democratic leadership carry each others torch and not a damn thing changes from one to the other. They campaign on promises to undue what the other guy did but NEVER EVER DO. They do MORE of the same.


My forefathers weren't left wing/right wing. They were federalist/anti federalist. I'm anti federalist.

I'm really more a pragmatist.

Outside of a few social issues i pretty much base my opinions on the best available research i can access and vet methodology wise.  Give me a political issue, and I can generally give you the best arguements for both sides.  (Which, usually there are at least some positives on both sides)

Additionally, country really matters. If I lived in Denmark, a Denmark level of government would be awesome.

In the US? I wouldn't trust the government to run a Quiznos.

Current Pol Com score

Which is somewhat misleading, as I do have somre more "Left Wing/Autortiarian" stances not covered.

In general being laws forcing more transparency.   The main problem most countries currently have with capitlism isn't lack of control.

It's lack of transparency.

Capitalism essentially rests on the strength of crowdsourcing problems.   This becomes less effective when nobody can clearly see the problems or possibly even know what is working.

I don't know why.  I mean political opinion polls more or less show the only reason Republicans don't get more black votes is the obvious ones.

Black people on average are actually more conservative than whites.  They just don't vote Republican or usually identify as conservative.  When you talk about those hot button conservative issues though? 

2008 info  but  http://www.gallup.com/poll/112807/blacks-conservative-republicans-some-moral-issues.aspx

For example, the rise in 2008 of black voters is what was credited for passing the recently disallowed Poposition 8... a whopping 70% of black people voted for it.  

Really if the Republicans collapse under their own weight, I wouldn't be surprised if blacks became the backbone for the new "conservative" splinter of the democrats.  Black people, union workers, people who would like to be union workers.

Outside which, hell... I had a friend at college who had a white grandfather who was extremely racist.  Essentially threatened to leave her out of his will and refused to help her finacially if she ever dated a black man.  Despite her being 3/4ths black.... and that HE married a black woman.

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In the Netherlands i would consider myself left, although the matters in the current society and my opinion on some of them would make most lefties spit on me...

Firmly left wing but with some centrist and environmentalist tendencies. Unsurprisingly, i feel unrepresented by my government or any of the main parties. I guess i would fit in with the Mexican Zapatistas politically. 

Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77

I can't believe i have gone further left since last time i done this